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Vitamin D deficiency-SAD, economic-money issues, commercialization, sad-traumatic family history...all contribute to sadness that can be felt in the holidays.

Factors such as SAD, lack of Vit D sometimes cannot be noticed until we have  been suffering for awhile, the brain lacks the ability sometimes to know we are going through it.

Emotional, family issues...we are a society that do not deal with these to completion. Mostly, we bottle unresolved issues and let it linger and fester...

To answer the cynics around, the best holiday I had was when I decided to ignore all the hoopla surrouding it (nothing wrong with that really) and concentrated on being thankful.  That was the best.

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